‘Ransom Canyon’ Season 2 Opening Week Viewership Down Over 40% from Season 1

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Ransom Canyon is officially back on our screens, but the neo-Western romance has hit a rather bumpy trail in its sophomore outing. Following a solid breakout first season in early 2025, the highly anticipated second season has debuted to a noticeably softer reception on the Netflix top 10 charts. Despite a passionate fanbase in English-speaking territories, the early numbers reveal a steep 43% drop in global views compared to its initial launch, making the sprawling drama the latest victim of a growing and highly scrutinized trend for returning Netflix Originals.
The season 2 drop shouldn’t be entirely surprising given that pretty much every show over the past few years has seen drops of some description, although the severity differs from show to show and often gives a good indication as to whether it’ll get renewed or not. FUBAR season 2 is a prime example with a season-to-season drop of over 76%, meaning it quickly got canceled. 
Of course, all this came to the spotlight via Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw recently, who reported that Netflix didn’t have any good answers to the problem, but the company has since been more defensive, claiming that it’s something that happens industry-wide and that the drops have improved in recent years. We did a massive deep-dive into the issue a few weeks back, which goes some way of explaining the drops and would recommend reading: 
Here’s a look at the drops over the past few years for season 2 outings, and then let’s take a look at how Ransom Canyon S2 compares. 

As a reminder on the performance of season 1: it spent 4 weeks in the global top 10s, picking up 183.6M viewing hours, equating to 23.3M views. 
Here’s how that breaks down:

Week in Top 10
Week Period
Hours Viewed
Views / CVE
Weekly Rank

1
Apr 13 to Apr 20, 2025 
56,600,000 (New)
7,200,000
2

2
Apr 20 to Apr 27, 2025
73,900,000 (+31%)
9,400,000
2

3
Apr 27 to May 4, 2025
33,100,000 (-55%)
4,200,000
3

4
May 4 to May 11, 2025
20,000,000 (-40%)
2,500,000
5

One extra caveat before diving in: Ransom Canyon season 2 notably cut its episode count from 10 to 8, therefore shortening the runtime. Therefore, it’s easier for it to pick up views because of how views are calculated. 
So what did Ransom Canyon S2 debut with? It pulled in 25.5M viewing hours, which equates to 4.1M views. That’s a 54% drop in viewing hours and a 43% drop in views. 

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Netflix Cumulative Views Over Time – Ransom Canyon – Season 1 and Ransom Canyon – Season 2 (5-week trend)
Week-by-week cumulative views for 2 Netflix titles: Ransom Canyon – Season 1, Ransom Canyon – Season 2. Combined final total: 27,400,000 views.

Weekly cumulative Netflix views for Ransom Canyon – Season 1 and Ransom Canyon – Season 2 over 5 weeks.

Title
Week 0
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Final cumulative

Ransom Canyon – Season 1
0
7,200,000
16,600,000
20,800,000
23,300,000
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Ransom Canyon – Season 2
0
4,100,000
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4,100,000

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